All Episodes
History Ireland — 130 episodes
Irish America in the 1950s
Ballyshannon—mapping the old town
Where stands Dev 50 years on?
Making sense of Trump’s America
O’Connell 250—the Liberator reassessed
Housing in Ireland—a history of dysfunction?
A Future For Our Past — Museums in the 21st Century
Making sense of the 2020 and 2024 general elections
‘Our man in Moscow’—50 years of Irish/Russian diplomatic relations
Is Irish History ‘sea-blind’?
How many died—and how—in the Irish Civil War?
‘Garrison games’—Niall Quinn tackles Oscar Traynor
The Life and Times of Brendan O’Regan
St Brigit 1500—who was she?
‘Taking her place amongst the nations of the earth’?—Ireland and the League of Nations
Iníon Dubh and Red Hugh O’Donnell
The Irish Civil War on film
The life and legacy of Theobald Wolfe Tone
Belfast: The story of a city and its people
The post-Civil War economy of the Irish Free State
Change and continuity—the general elections of 1922 and 1923
Labour and the Civil War
Photographs as historical sources
Memorialising the Civil War
Archbishop John Charles McQuaid—a reassessment
A century on—how do we view the Irish Civil War?
The Civil War in Kerry
Reflections on the Decade of Centenaries
W.B. Yeats and the Irish Free State
Marú in Iarthar Chorcaí (Murder in West Cork)
Donegal in the Civil War
Irish Travellers and the State, 1922-2022—activism, advocacy and allyship
The Irish Civil War—a military analysis
What if Michael Collins had survived the Civil War?
Unmanageable Revolutionaries—women in the ‘decade of centenaries’
Michael Collins—man and myth
Arthur Griffith, ‘father of us all’
The life and times of Harry Boland
The assassination of Sir Henry Wilson and the Irish Civil War
The ‘Belleek/Pettigo triangle’, May/June 1922
Sister against sister—women, the Treaty split and the Civil War
Ulysses in history—history in Ulysses
Burning the Big House—the story of the Irish country house in a time of war and revolution (Yale University Press)
The internal politics of the IRA before the Civil War
Northern Ireland in 1922
‘We English protest’—anti-colonial solidarity in the metropole
A Century of An Garda Síochána
Centenary of the Irish Race Congress, Paris, 21-28 January 1922
‘Dublin Castle has fallen!’—the handover, 16 January 1922
Robert Barton—forgotten man of the Irish revolution?
Dev and the Banner 1917–1926
Pandemics then and now—a reassessment of the 1918 flu in the light of Covid
The Treaty—good deal or bad deal?
Colmcille 1500—man, myth and memory
Ireland and the ‘Greater War’ in Europe—compare and contrast
‘Grand and Royal’—a history of Irish canals
Crowd-funding the revolution—the underground administration
Prisons and prisoners during the War of Independence
Kenmare: History and survival—Fr John O’Sullivan and the Famine Poor
Fingal in the revolutionary decade
The propaganda war in the revolutionary decade
Faith and Fury: the evangelical campaign in Dingle and West Kerry 1825–45
Kilkenny in the Revolutionary Decade
The Truce
George V’s opening of the Northern Ireland parliament
Mayo in the Revolutionary Decade
The First Irish Cities: an eighteenth-century transformation
The burning of the Custom House, 25 May 1921
Conceived in controversy—230 years of the Custom House
Wexford in the Revolutionary Decade
A History of Partition from the 1920 Government of Ireland Act to Brexit
Crossbarry, Co. Cork—the biggest engagement of the War of Independence
Clare in the revolutionary decade
Limerick 6/7 March 1921 Curfew Murders
Gaelic Ulster in the Middle Ages: history, culture and society
Katharine O’Shea centenary—what if she and Parnell never met?
‘Spies and informers beware!’—intelligence and counterintelligence in the War of Independence
Kildare in the revolutionary decade
Wicklow in the revolutionary decade (part 2, South)
Wicklow in the revolutionary decade (part 1, North)
The Government of Ireland Act 1920—100 years of partition
History, Memory and Bloody Sunday 1920
Belfast and the North 1920-22
Bloody Sunday 1920—the Tipperary Connection
Commemorating Bloody Sunday in the Junior Cycle history classroom
The West’s awake!–Revolution in Roscommon 1916-1921
‘In Mountjoy Jail one Monday morning…’—the Irish Revolution in ballad and song
'Eye of the storm?’—Dublin and the War of Independence
'Better a state without public records than public records without a state’?
Nenagh and North Tipperary during the revolutionary decade
The Irish Republic abroad in 1920—Dev in America
IRELAND, EMPIRE AND THE SEA
Terence MacSwiney—martyrdom, civil resistance & the Irish Revolution
Cork—Crucible of the War of Independence
Derry and the North-West, 1920–22—War of Independence or Communal Conflict?
The Connaught Rangers Mutiny—1920, 1970 & 2020
Henry Grattan 200 years on—a misunderstood legacy?
Soviets, strikes and land seizures—class conflict & the Tan War
Making sense of the general election
Teaching Controversial Issues: History and Commemoration
An inconvenient truth? Sexual violence and the Irish Revolution
Labour and the North, and the National Question
A century on—how do we view the War of Independence?
The War of Independence in County Clare
Scotland and the global Irish Revolution
A century of women
The Irish Revolution—local or global?
Censorship in Ireland—then and now
Soloheadbeg — impact & legacy
From ballots to bullets — Ireland 1918–19
THE GREAT HUNGER REASSESSED
100 years of women in politics and political life
The sinking of the RMS Leinster and the war at sea
Greatest killer of the 20th century? The ’flu pandemic of 1918–19
The cause of Labour? The 1918 general strike against conscription
History v archaeology: is it like Neanderthals versus Homo sapiens?
John Redmond: his life and legacy
Cinema in Revolutionary Ireland
William Allingham: ‘an Irish poet but not a national poet’? (W.B. Yeats)
50th anniversary of ‘free education’
Meeting Éamon De Valera and Michael Collins
REFORMATION 500 — the Hedge School
The last train from Bundoran
History Ireland Hedge School @ Mindfield, Electric Picnic
‘Keeping the head down’? — Protestant folklore Project
‘Poet of the blackbirds’ — the life and death of Francis Ledwidge
Ireland and Europe: then and now
Ireland and the United States from 1917 to Trump
Ireland, the United States and the war at sea, 1917
Ireland & the UK from 1916 to Brexit